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date	draft	title	tags
2017-02-04	false	Trump FCC chair begins dismantling consumer protections and subsidies	politics net neutrality

Ars Technica:

"The Federal Communications Commission's new Republican leadership has rescinded a determination that AT&T and Verizon Wireless violated net neutrality rules with paid data cap exemptions. The FCC also rescinded several other Wheeler-era reports and actions."

We're barely two weeks into the new presidential administration, and it looks like net neutrality will be yet another casualty of this administration's drive to strip away consumer-friendly regulations.

If a ruling or judgement is good for telecoms or ISPs it is very likely bad for customers. This is one of those cases.

The FCC also took steps to scale back benefits provided by the Lifeline program to low income consumers:

"Regulators are telling nine companies they won't be allowed to participate in a federal program meant to help them provide affordable Internet access to low-income consumers — weeks after those companies had been given the green light."

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